• DocumentCode
    3528287
  • Title

    Variable Slowlight Buffers in All-Optical Packet Switching Routers

  • Author

    Jie Yang ; Karalar, Aytug O ; Djordjevic, Stevan S. ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Chunxin Yang ; Wei Chen ; Sai Chu ; Little, Brent E. ; Ben Yoo, S.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigated variable slowlight buffers consisting of 8 and 32 tunable-coupled-resonator-rings. Experiments showed error-free operations exhibiting variable delays of 0~2 ns at 1.25 Gb/s for 8-ring and 0-350 ps at 10 Gb/s for 32-ring structures.
  • Keywords
    optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical resonators; optical switches; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; all-optical packet switching routers; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; error-free operations; tunable-coupled-resonator-rings; variable delays; variable slowlight buffers; Error-free operation; Optical buffering; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Packet switching; Propagation delay; Resonance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528595
  • Filename
    4528595